Soulbury is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Aylesbury Vale, about seven miles south of the Milton Keynes urban area, three miles north of Wing. The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'stronghold in a gully'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Soleberie.
Greens Norton is a village in South Northamptonshire, England, just over 1 mile (1.6 km) from Towcester. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 1,587 people, including Caswell and Duncote but the population reducing to 1,526 at the 2011 census.
Wood Burcote is a hamlet located less than one mile south of Towcester in the district of South Northamptonshire in the English county of Northamptonshire. It takes its name from a small wood above the village which overlooks the valley of the River Tove. The wood is carpeted with bluebells and ramsons in the Spring, suggesting it is the remnant of an ancient woodland.
The Grose was an English automobile built between 1898 and 1901.
Burcot is a hamlet in Oxfordshire, England on the left bank of the River Thames, in the civil parish of Clifton Hampden. Until 1932, it lay in the civil parish of Dorchester.
Caswell is a lost settlement in Northamptonshire approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from Towcester, 8 miles (12.9 km) from Northampton and 12 miles (19 km) from Milton Keynes. It is close to Greens Norton village and now consists almost entirely of Caswell House, a former family farmhouse built for the 4th Duke of Grafton in 1839. Another similar house is at Field Burcote, a hamlet 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of Green's Norton. Both have three widely spaced bays with low-pitched hipped slate roofs and lower wings and are formally arranged The building and stables are Grade II listed.
Richard Fermor (1480x84–1551), was an English wool merchant. His father Thomas Fermor, was also a wool merchant in Witney, Oxfordshire. By 1505 Richard was a merchant of the staple at Calais.
Worfield is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 76 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, four are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish includes the village of Worfield, and other villages and smaller settlements, including Allscot, Ackleton, Chesterton, Hilton, Roughton, Stableford, Swancote, and Wyken, and is otherwise rural. Most of the listed buildings are houses, cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings, the earlier of which are timber framed, or have timber framed cores. The other listed buildings include a church, the churchyard wall and gate piers, a country house and associated dovecote, two bridges, a watermill, public houses, a school, a war memorial, and two telephone kiosks.
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